Sociolinguistics
People
Paul Baker | Willem Hollmann | Mark Sebba | Ruth Wodak
Overview
Our research in the area of sociolinguistics has rapidly expanded over the past five years, particularly in the areas of variation and change in phonetics, grammar and orthography. Our areas of specialism in this area include:
- Bilingualism and language contact
- Language, gender and sexuality
- Social dialectology and sociophonetics
- Sociolinguistics of orthography
- Varieties of English in the UK and globally
Associated Research Groups
Gender and Language Research Group (GAL)
Language, Ideology & Power Research Group (LIP)
Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT)
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)